Caray, Caray!

This 30 minute episode, remarkable for the complete absence of the odious Marisa and Karla, zipped along nicely. To save some time they cut out the usual recap at the beginning. Not sure what else they left out. The important thing is that 12 Corazones had its full hour and presumably the game was shown on time.

So – we are back at the beach café where Andrea catches Alej and Naty smooching. It turns out our little airhead really is a good friend. She protects Naty by shooing away Fernando and the gang, telling them the place is full, don’t even try to get a table.

The king is in his counting house…
Leo to his secretary: ¿Nadie me ha llamado? Nobody called me? (It’s so sad having no one to reject)

A rey muerto rey puesto The king is dead. Long live the king! (To the dead king, a king is placed/crowned)
Cris is telling Vicki she is soooo over Leo.

And in Morocco…
While little Jadiya dances, Jade tells tío Ali that she wants to go back to the US to be near Said. She worries that Lucas’s wife is trying to get too close to him. Ali is thrilled to hear that Jade is thinking like this and agrees to get the tickets cuanto antes (right away).

Hasta me dan ganas de llorar… It makes me want to cry!
Alicia is verklempt (choked up with emotion) at the sweetness of Albi and Luisa going away together for a week and trusting her with filling in for Luisa. Randy old Escobar couldn’t be happier about it; Julio’s pleasure is a bit more restrained.

And in the ruins, Lucas paces and waits… Romantic piano accompaniment.

Said strides angrily through the Medina. Warrior drumbeats sound.

Jade, swathed in head-to-toe black, arrives for her tryst with Lucas. She reveals her silvery, shimmery dance costume under her sober robes and as ‘Amor Amor’ sounds, she begins to dance for Lucas.

Allah, que nadie se de cuenta de la ausencia de Jade
May no one notice Jade’s absence, prays Zoraida, handily using the third person subjunctive of dar, but alas to no avail. There is a pounding on the door. It’s Said and he wants to know where Jade is. Upstairs in her room, fibs Zoraida. Jadiya greets her daddy happily, telling him that she and mom were just getting ready to go back to the US to see him. Mommy left very early, she tells him. So why didn’t you go with her Zoraida? he demands to know. Zoraida babbles something about her leaving so early to buy lamb. (Apparently everyone knows Jade hasn’t earned her lamb-buying merit badge yet and needs extra time for this errand)

And while poor Zoraida is spinning ineffectually, Jade is twirling and shimmying to much greater effect as a blissed out Lucas looks on…

See here, she was getting ready to go to you, here’s her luggage (equipaje) says Zoraida to Said. He’s not interested. Get me a phone book, he barks and then dismisses her. He calls Lucas’s hotel room, gets a nonplussed Enrique. Said invites – or should I say summons -- Lucas and Enrique to dinner that night at Ali’s house and makes it clear he won’t take no for an answer.

Allah, el destino de Jade está escrito en esta taza.
Allah, Jade’s destiny is written in this cup. Yes, Zoraida is reading the coffee grounds and here is what they tell her:
Son dos hombres, dos tiempos…
They are two men, two times...
A uno le veo claramente el rostro, es Lucas
One’s face I see clearly, it’s Lucas
El otro es como si fuera su sombra.
The other, it’s as if he were his shadow.

¿Pero porqué no consigo descifrarlo? But why can't I manage to decipher it?
How, muses Zoraida, can a person be separate from his shadow? (despegarse, literally, to become unstuck). It’s very confusing, she thinks, but it is about to happen.

And at the ruins, Lucas is finally returning The Necklace to Jade. We hear Zoraida’s voice repeating the prophecy about the stone:
Cuando la piedra vuelva a ella, el pasado y el futuro van a correr uno a la dirección del otro y se van a cruzar como si fueran dos ríos.
When the stone returns to her, the past and the future will run, each in the direction of the other and they will cross as if they were two rivers.

Jade and Lucas are sure that the miracle of recovering the necklace is a sign that their destiny is being fulfilled, that nothing can come between them, that they will live happily ever after. He unfastens her bra and the camera discretely looks away.

In Miami, Alej asks Naty if Andrea knows about them. She does, but it’s cool. Besides my mother knows I’m seeing someone and she’s really happy about it (se puso muy contenta) although she doesn’t know it’s you.

And in Little Morocco, the hand-picked computer tech is putting the finishing touches on the kids’ new laptop. Samira wins the obligatory me-first contest with Amin, but her pleasure turns to disappointment when she learns that the parental units have blocked internet use with a contraseña known only to them. This means the kids can only go online under the direct supervision of a parent. Bummer. And no games for Amin either.

So who’s this mysterious boyfriend of Natalia’s, Mama Rosa asks Alej, startling him so much that he drops a plate. He feigns ignorance but even Rosa can tell he’s fibbing. Ah well, she says, Haces bien en ser discreto (you do well to be discreet); it speaks well of you.

You can fool some of the people…
Albi confides to Julio that he doesn’t think Alicia is prepared to do Luisa’s work: No creo que Alicia esté preparada para hacer el trabajo de Luisa. Tell me, says Albi, what do you think of Alicia. Julio replies:
A veces veo que es tan servicial que se pasa. (Sometimes she’s so helpful that she goes too far.) Yes, agrees Albi, that’s what makes me uncomfortable about her. Well, just make sure you supervise her closely and label all the specimens yourself.

And meanwhile Luisa is pressing Alicia to accept her credit card which she does after a girlish show of reluctance. Me hubiera encantado tener una madre como tú, she gushes (I would have loved having a mother like you). And I a daughter like you, replies Luisa (only when she says it her nose doesn’t grow five inches!)

Chismoso Ramon lurks in the background while Dora tells Vicki that Daniel is working and right now is in Mexico, in Cancún. Más parece una sombra buscando su cuerpo que un niño de veinte años. (He seems more like a shadow looking for his body than a boy of 20).

Jade and Lucas say goodbye and she heads back to tío Ali’s house. The couple are thinking that now nothing can stand in the way of their love. The musical director knows better, however, and the strains of “lloran y lloran y lloran” (they weep and they weep and they weep) acccompany her on her way.

In Miami, Naty, Andrea and Alej are at a café. They speculate on how the Ferrer family will react to their relationship. They decide that Lucas will support them because he’s open-minded, he’s more like them. Marisa and Leo? Never. The talk turns to living together. You guys are so cute, coos Andrea.

Gloria grills Pablo about Alej’s business. Ramoncito tells me my son is in love with a girl so rich her pores give off money instead of sweat (en vez de sudor le salen billetes por los poros). Well let’s hope she’s not going to take advantage of him like that Karla did.

Ramon is delivering the news to the Naz that Osvaldo’s novia has a grown son although Ramon’s not sure who the father is. The Naz does her drama queen thing, raving that if she had been allowed to marry Ozzie when he first asked her, she wouldn’t be alone now, woe is the Naz. Well that’s all very well but my pay? says Ramon. She grudgingly gives him one gold earring. And the other? he asks. She explodes at him, telling him to ask for it when he’s got something worthwhile to tell her.

Jade all in black makes her way back through the Medina. Ali reaches home before her and is greeted by a frantic Zoraida who tells him Said is back and Jade has gone who knows where. Said’s glowering face appears and it seems he has heard this conversation.

¡No puede ser!
And Enrique is telling Lucas about Said’s presence in Morocco -- oh no, that can’t be! -- and his insistence that they both come to dinner at Ali’s house. To refuse would be an admission of guilt. What do you think he’s up to? asks Lucas. I don’t know, replies Enrique, but prepare yourself for the worst: Prepárate por lo peor.

¿Dónde estabas Jade? or The Jig is Up
Where were you Jade? asks the furious Said as soon as she appears at the door. I went to the market to buy some things… she begins to say. He forces open her robes to reveal the silvery shimmery outfit beneath. ¿Fuiste al mercado vestida así como una odalisca??? You went to the market like dressed like a harem slave?

Credits roll.

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